Worker dies in Port Arthur refinery accident

Updated 4:20 pm, Sunday, September 6, 2015

A 66-year-old worker died at a refinery in Port Arthur Saturday afternoon.

An employee driving a bulldozer became submerged in a coke pit about 1 p.m. Saturday at the Total Petrochemical plant in the 7400 block of 32nd Street, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.

Another worker who saw what happened called for help and began the work to pull the bulldozer from the 200-degree refinery wastewater, sheriff's officials said.

Co-workers and paramedics who later arrived attempted to revive the injured worker without success.

He was pronounced dead at the scene by Jefferson County Justice of the Peace Marc Derouen.